I grew up on a farm and one of my father’s friends who also farmed, picked up a few extra dollars repairing guns in a small building behind his home. His shop was only about an hour’s bicycle ride away, so I occasionally visited him. In those days, single-shot rifles in .22 Rimfire made by Stevens, Hopkins & Allen, Page-Lewis and others were both abundant and cheap. I never asked what inspired him to use those actions for building what he described as “long-range pistols,” but he was quite good at it.
In addition to shortening the barrel to 15 inches or so, he heated and reshaped the tang (or tangs) of action and fitted a grip made of black walnut from a tree he had removed from his back yard many years before. His crowning achievement and the one he was most proud of, was a handgun in .30-06 on a 1903 Springfield barreled action. I never got around to shooting that one, and while I never actually owned one of his .22s, he often loaned me one to bump off a few cottontail rabbits and grey squirrels.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Varmint Rifles & Cartridges - Spring 2021 من Rifle.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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CIMARRON .32-20 Short Rifle & Carbine
In the heyday of Winchester Repeating Arms Company lever guns, it offered muskets, standard rifles, short rifles and saddle ring carbines.
Remington's Model 722 and .222 Cartridge
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Coyote Bullets
What is Best for You?
Remington's 5mm Rimfire Magnum
Shooting a Classic
Winchester's New Wildcat
The Ultralight Rimfire Varmint Rifle
.223 Remington from .30-30 Winchester?
Multitasking for Varmints
LOADS FOR A .22 TCM
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Everybody Loves Velocity
The 4,500-fps WSSM Project
A BOLT-ACTION FRANCHI 224 VALKYRIE
Testing New Loads
.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire
Shooting Revolvers